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Oleg Kalnichevski commented on HTTPCLIENT-1995:
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[~harlt] So, let me make sure I understand it right: your code is brittle so it 
cannot correctly handle equivalent URIs correctly but somehow "this URI 
normalization stuff" of mine is to blame.

Anyway, if you do not want HttpClient to normalize request URIs (which it has 
been doing since 4.1, albeit incorrectly) just turn off with {{RequestConfig}} 
class.

Oleg  

> Percent-encoded ampersand in URI path not preserved
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HTTPCLIENT-1995
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1995
>             Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: HttpClient (classic)
>    Affects Versions: 4.5.8, 4.5.9
>         Environment: Linux Mint 19, OpenJDK 8
>            Reporter: none_
>            Priority: Major
>
> Starting with HttpClient 4.5.8, percent-encoded ampersand characters in URI 
> path segments are not preserved any longer but written in decoded form to 
> wire due to path normalization performed by URIUtils.rewriteURI(URI, 
> HttpHost).
>  
> According to RFC 3986 (page 11+), the ampersand character is a delimiter and 
> thus needs to be percent-encoded when not used for this purpose. Path 
> normalization, as performed by HttpClient v4.5.8+, creates a new URI that is 
> not equivalent to the original URI and thus leads to misinterpretation on 
> server/receiver side.
> ??URIs that differ in the replacement of a reserved character with its??
> ??corresponding percent-encoded octet are not equivalent. Percent-??
> ??encoding a reserved character, or decoding a percent-encoded octet??
> ??that corresponds to a reserved character, will change how the URI is??
> ??interpreted by most applications??.
>   
> A very simple test case is as follows:
> {code:java}
> @Test
> public void testAmpersand() throws Throwable
> {
>     final URI uri = new 
> URI("http://example.org/some/path%26with%20percent/encoded/segments";);
>     final URI uri2 = URIUtils.rewriteURI(uri, null);
>         
>     Assert.assertEquals(uri, uri2);
> }
> {code}
>  
>  



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